PSSR Salesperson - Utility

Ring Power Corporation; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ring Power Corporation is seeking a dedicated sales professional to manage a defined territory in the United States. The role emphasizes building customer relationships, conducting cold calls, and expanding the customer base while coordinating with Ring Power training experts to educate customers on products and services.

The ideal candidate will support annual territory planning, maintain CRM records, and act as the primary contact for parts and services programs.

Qualifications

• Formal education: High School diploma or GED.
• Experience: 1-2 years in sales or related roles.
• Ability to understand written material and communicate clearly with customers and staff.
• Valid driver’s license required.
• Sales experience and industry knowledge are highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Effectively manages territory, including cold calls, building and strengthening customer relationships, and expanding the customer base.
• Provides technical and educational support to customers in collaboration with Ring Power experts.
• Assists in developing annual goals for the market and forecast plans.
• Maintains customer accounts, credit levels, and tracks opportunities in the CRM.
• Serves as customer’s primary contact for parts and services programs and ensures timely resolution of complex issues.
• Collaborates with marketing, sales, service and operations teams.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Territory management

Cold calling

Relationship building

CRM usage

Sales planning

Communication

Negotiation

Interpersonal skills

Strategic thinking

Safety awareness

Education

High School diploma

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

CRM

MS Office 365

Job description

Main Duties & Responsibilities

rimary Job Role

Effectively manages their territory, including conducting cold calls, building and strengthening relationships with customers, and expanding the customer base.

Provides or facilitates technical and educational support to customers, collaborating with other Ring Power technical and training experts to build credibility and advance customer learning about products, services and solutions.

Assists managers in developing annual goals and objectives for the market, including specific accounts, products and/or industries. With periodic progress reviews.

Develops and submits yearly territory forecast and plan for approval by manager.

Develops and maintains customer accounts, including establishing proper credit levels as well as tracking all sales opportunities and activities in the CRM and keeping records current.

Conducts her/himself as a professional: committing to personal and professional growth and learning; being honest, considerate and respectful; and maintaining a professional appearance.

Serves as the customer's primary contact for all parts and services programs, and to make sure that the customer is kept current on all of these programs. Manages fleet support and solely responsible for reporting customer opportunities and complex issues, routing them to the proper channels and ensuring resolution.

Collaborates with other Ring Power professionals, departments, and divisions on marketing, sales, service, and operations.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Essential Job Competencies

Safety: fully supports, encourages and follows safe work behavior, and considers safety of paramount importance in the workplace.

Job Specific Skills: Demonstrates the required depth and mastery of knowledge and skill associated with the job as identified in the Learning Management System (LMS) and other applicable sources. Demonstrates the effective application of the job specific knowledge, skills and ability required to resolve job related challenges in the workplace. Refer to job specific training requirements for the job identified in the LMS.

Communication: Uses active listening skills, conveying information with the appropriate medium that is clear and easily understood. Uses feedback to verify effective and accurate communication has occurred. Ensures that others having a need to know are kept informed about developments, progress, problems and plans through consistent, effective communication. Avoids surprises.

Credibility: Demonstrated concern to be responsible, reliable, and trustworthy. Maintains commitments. Respects the confidentiality of information or concerns shared by others. Is honest and forthright with people. Takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work. Punctual, follows instructions, policies, and procedures.

Confidence and Drive: Confident in one's own ideas and capability to be successful; willingness to take an independent position in the face of opposition. Approaches challenging tasks with a “can-do” attitude. Driven to see projects and tasks through to successful completion, is not swayed by resistance and focuses on achievement of the initiative.

Negotiating: Seeks to understand others' interests. Knows when to be gentle and when to be assertive, and acts accordingly. Questions and counters others' proposals without damaging relationships. Explains positions to gain acceptance. Works from facts and a strong knowledge base. Seeks common interests and win/win solutions or mutually agreeable trade-offs.

Interpersonal Skill: Anticipates, notices, and understands concerns of others, involving them in a process or decision to ensure their support. Develops and maintains positive relationships. Considerate and discreet in handling challenging, awkward or tense interpersonal situations, focusing on issues and interests instead of people or positions. Knows when to elevate critical issues when unsuccessful in gaining support.

Planning and Organizing: Creates realistic schedules and follows them. Evaluates progress against schedule and goal. Identifies the sequence of tasks and the resources needed to achieve a goal, and prioritizes key action steps. Anticipates the impacts / risks of actions. Seeks and uses others' input about critical actions, timelines, sequencing, scope, methodology, expected outcomes, and priorities. Adjusts plans based on input.

Customer Oriented: Demonstrates concern for satisfying external and/or internal customers. Responsive, quickly and effectively addresses customer concerns or problems. Assures customers he/she is willing to work with them to meet their needs. Presents a cheerful, positive manner with customers.

Strategic: Understands relevant industry and market trends. Develops and proposes a long-term strategy based on an analysis of the industry, marketplace and current and potential capabilities as compared to competitors. Anticipates potential problems and develop appropriate contingency plans. Conducts independent analysis in the creative search for new ideas or solutions.

Company Overview

In 1962, Ring Power Corporation became a full-line Caterpillar dealer in North Florida, and later expanded its authorized territory to include Central Florida.

Today, Ring Power Corporate headquarters in St. Augustine oversees the operations of 18 branch locations throughout the state of Florida, including large regional facilities in Tampa and Orlando and crane and forklift sales and service facilities in Pompano. Ring Power also has eight facilities outside of Florida - The Carolinas, Georgia, Texas & Tennessee- to serve the needs of other specialized industries and customers.

Ring Power Corporation has become one of the largest Caterpillar dealers in the southeastern United States through dedication to the mission of customer service. In order to preserve the “Customers First” reputation that Ring Power was built on, we continually train our employees and work closely with our customers to assure complete satisfaction, especially after the sale.

Currently, more than 2,300 employees at 20+ locations throughout Florida and the United States work hard to provide the highest quality construction equipment, backed by responsive, professional service and support at every level.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Formal EducationHigh School diploma or GED

Experience1-2 years

Required / Credentials

Able to easily and effectively comprehend written material and communicate orally and in writing with employees and customers.

Valid drivers license

Not Required but Highly Desired Criteria

Sales experience

Industry or technical experience

Microsoft Office 365 Suite experience

CRM experience

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Updating of Knowledge

Job requirements frequently change requiring re‑training once or more per year.

Responsibility for Change, Innovation, Overall Improvement, and/or Effectiveness

Problem SolvingJob requires complex problem solving ability with little guidance. Independent research and analysis are sometimes required to develop solutions.

CreativityJob requires extensive creativity and a constant need to find new and improved solutions to be effective.

AutonomyJob is not normally monitored, but overall objectives are clearly defined. Use of discretion in how the work is done, setting priorities and decision making is encouraged. More emphasis is placed on achieving the desired outcome, not on controlling the process.

Working Environment

Stress LoadOccasional exposure to these stresses (less than 20% of the time).

Workload FluctuationJob frequently involves changes in priorities, complexity and/or quantity of work.

Work ScheduleWork is scheduled during regular business hours with frequent requirements to work nights, holidays and weekends.

Organizational Impact

A person's performance in this job hasconsiderableimmediate impact on expense, efficiencies or achievement of overall department objectives.

Supervisory Responsibility

Job has no subordinates / no supervisory responsibility (may work independently or as a member of a team)

Physical Demands

"NA": Not Applicable

"O": Occasionally - (up to 3 hours/day)

"F": Frequently - (3-6 hours/day)

"C": Constantly - (6-8 hours/day)

N/A:Climbing

N/A:Balancing

O:Stooping

N/A:Kneeling

O:Crouching

N/A:Crawling

O:Reaching

F:Standing

F:Sitting

F:Walking

N/A:Feeling

N/A:Fingering

O:Grasping

N/A:Repetitive Motion

F:Talking

C:Hearing

N/A:Pushing - Up to 25 lbs.

O:Pulling - Up to 25 lbs.

O:Lifting - Up to 25 lbs.

N/A:Pushing - 26-50 lbs

N/A:Pulling - 26-50 lbs.

N/A:Lifting - 26-50 lbs.

N/A:Pushing - Over 50 lbs.

N/A:Pulling - Over 50 lbs.

N/A:Lifting - Over 50 lbs.

Environmental Conditions

"NA": Not Applicable

"O": Occasionally - (up to 3 hours/day)

"F": Frequently - (3-6 hours/day)

"C": Constantly - (6-8 hours/day)

F:Inside conditions: Protection from weather but not necessarily from temperature change.N/A:Outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather.N/A:Extreme cold: Temperatures below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour.O:Extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour.O:Noise: sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout to be heard above the ambient noise levelN/A:Vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities of whole body.O:Hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions (i.e. proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working in high places, exposure to heat and/or chemicals.O:Atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin: Fumes, odors, dust, mists, gases or poor ventilation.N/A:Oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.N/A:Air particulates / contaminants: the worker is required to wear respirator.

RING POWER CORPORATION, INC. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER